A Different Approach to Resource Management for Distributed Systems.
Sascha Groh, Markus Pizka · 1997
This paper presents a new concept for a distributed resource management. The management is performed by a multi agent system and based on a graph rewriting system. Every activity in the distributed system is managed by one agent, which is the basis for a management that adapts to each application. The cooperation among all agents achieves the management of the whole system and is the foundation for a fair and efficient resource mapping for all applications, regardless of whether the applications are executed in parallel or not. The management overhead is reduced by many different realizations for the agents and the possibility to transform an agent from one realization to another which is formally described by a graph rewriting system. Keywords: resource management, multi agent system, application adapted management, graph rewriting system 1 Distributed Resource Managements In the past years the computing power of workstations has grown enormously. But also the demand on computing p...